Simulating Cities: Enhancing Business Cases and Project Planning with Dynamic Capacity Constrained Citywide Models
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Time 5.30pm - 7.30pm AEST
Format In Person Technical Seminar
Location SCT Consulting, Level 4/157 Walker St, North Sydney NSW 2060 (Cammeraygal and Wallumedegal Country)
CPD 1.5 CPD Points (self appointed)
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About this event
Typical transport business cases adopt economic inputs from strategic models, with design verification conducted in microsimulation environments using demand sourced from strategic models.
While this is widely accepted common practice given legacy tool availability, this poses risks to delivery of business cases, given the shear scale / scope tradeoff between strategic and microsimulation models (i.e. strategic models cover whole cities or states with limited network detail, whereas microsimulation models cover small areas of corridors with copious network detail). This leaves a gap between these modelling frameworks and results in situations where volumes that exceed capacity from strategic models (which is possible given they aren’t capacity constrained) results in oversaturated microsimulation models. It also means the benefits of arterial upgrades, which are driven by signalised intersection performance, can’t directly be taken into account and also can’t directly affect route choice.
In recent years, with the advancements in software, interim Mesoscopic layers have become more prominent and are beginning to find their place in the modelling stack to assist in enhancing business case outcomes and also providing frameworks for more rapid decision making.
This session, hosted by SCT Consulting, will explore the application of the Mesoscopic modelling layer for the Western Freeway Upgrade business cases and explore the three core benefits outlined below. The session would be useful for people responsible for delivering business cases, transport modelling practitioners keen to advance their knowledge in the field and other parties involved or interested in business case development.
1. Enhancing Economics - by providing more accurate travel time benefits, given arterial intersection delays and freeway merge/diverge conditions are directly evaluated
2. Enabling Rapid Design Testing - providing an interim mechanism for rapid testing of options, so a shorter/combined list of preferred option(s) only needs to be run through more detailed microsimulation for design verification
3. Mitigating Demand Risk from Strategic to Microsim - providing more accurate route choice within a constrained network context, mitigating risk of loading demands from strategic models where volume exceeds capacity and ensuring the demand translation from strategic to microsimulation models results in more representative traffic volumes for design testing.
Please join us for networking and catering after the presentation.
Registrations close at 10am, Monday 16 June 2025
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Speakers
Trent Ekanayake | Director | Clarity Consult
Trent Ekanayake is the Founding Director of Clarity Consult and a Principal Grade Transport Modelling practitioner. Following a career across Big Engineering Companies and the Big 4, Trent established Clarity Consult with the vision to enhance how demand and operational models work together, and also provide frameworks for enhanced congestion representation at scale.
David Ng | Director | PTV Vision
David is responsible for the customers and markets of PTV Group in Australia, New Zealand and the wider APAC region. He has been working closely with and supporting different customers in developing transportation models, deploying traffic management systems, as well as implementing new mobility initiatives. Previously, he was working with various engineering consultants, being involved in transport master planning and traffic simulation projects in Australia, Asia and the Middle East.
Ash Bailey | Manager Project Development | Major Road Projects Victoria
Ash Bailey is a Manager for Project Development at Major Road Projects Victoria. He is responsible for coordinating the development of major road projects around metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, including High Value High Risk business cases, such as the Western Freeway Upgrade Business Case. He also has a highly developed understanding of transport modelling aspects and their application to projects, having previously worked in the field in a hands-on capacity.
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